Long-distance interdisciplinarity leads to higher scientific impact

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Larivière, Vincent ^a,b   Haustein, Stefanie ^a   Börner, Katy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITATION ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISCIPLINES RELATING TO BIOMEDICINE; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; COOPERATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; SCIENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; SCIENCE;

EID: 84926309793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122565     Document Type: Article

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